Life in the good ole days was great, or at least swell, for the Cleavers in Beaverville, the fathers in Bestville, and Barnie n’em in the merry berry sundown town where hillbillies could have armed standoffs with the sheriff in … Continue reading Moore Christmassing While Black
Malcolm X was a master narrator. Whenever reporters tried to get him with a “gotcha question,” he got them instead. Continue reading Malcolm X 100 & Transforming Narratives
Faithing while Black Dr. Esau McCauley, author of Reading While Black, contrasted one of the main features of the Black Church with a major point of contention in European Christianity. In a panel discussion with the Jude 3 Project, McCauley … Continue reading Christmassing While Black
How do I know I’m Black? Through the tutelage of classmates whose parents taught them they were White, Except when assuring me I shouldn’t be offended when they told ni**er jokes, Because I wasn’t really Black, was I? Except for … Continue reading Colorism’s Comedy
Marcus the Macro Man Ok, so Marcus Garvey didn’t have microaggressions in his vocabulary. Nobody did back then. Furthermore, macro was Garvey’s thing, not micro. Garvey didn’t do anything on a small scale. Garvey believed in BIGness: he BIGGED himself … Continue reading Marcus Garvey on Microaggressions
The year of my birth was cause for widespread celebration. There were huge outdoor parties in New York and large-scale fireworks that reached the moon. They partied like it was 1969! Because it was. The moon landing was televised. Woodstock … Continue reading Moonwalking on a Revolutionary Summer’s Dream
The American Psychological Association defines resilience as “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” If I were to give an … Continue reading The Resilience Music of Mavis Staples
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